shelving Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hold back to a later time
    prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; put over; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
    • let's postpone the exam
  2. verb place on a shelf
    shelve.
    • shelve books

WordNet

Shelv"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.
Shelv"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
  2. The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
  3. Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

Webster 1913